Recurves


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Hit "Black Ace" recurve 72" Apollo "Martin" Bow (1950's) 
Aluminum takedown 
Made by Accles & Pollock Ltd. Oldsury, Birmingham, England
Photo and information provided by Stan Siatkowski
Bear Archery "Grizzly" (1951) Bear Archery "76er" (1976)
One of the largest selling bows.
Sold in many stores for $24.95
Magnesium riser with solid fiberglass limbs
Bear Archery (1960) original ad Bear (1970)
Bear Take-Down Bows (1971) Bear Archery (1973)
Bear 76er Deluxe
Bear 76er Custom
Bear Archery (1973)
Victor Super Kokiak
Victor Super Magnum "48"
Bear Archery (1982)
"Formula Gold"


Bear "Special Limited Numbered Edition" Take Down 
Autographed by Fred Bear (1980)
Includes 22 karat gold plated limb mounts, clear glass and custom display box.
The limbs are Yew wood with clear glass. The Yew for these bows was cut and seasoned by Earl Ulrich, at age 91. Earl  selected Yew for bows all his life in the high mountains of Oregon  The riser is made of Brazilian Rosewood with decorative fiberglas tips.
Structure of an early composite bow
  Browning Folding Bow
(photos by Tom Lemme, Lemme's Archery)
Browning Archery
Firedrake and Wasp bows (1989)
Checkmate Take-down Recurve
Filippo Donadoni recurve bow Howatt Eldorado recurve bow 
(early 1970's)
Each bow had a custom made pearl resin grip and flip rest
Fasco Archery 
San Diego. California   (1960)
Glas-Lite takedown recurve (1969)
"Bushwacker" 
Mfg by Plas/Steel Products
aluminum riser with glass limbs
Groves Archery (1965) Howatt Archery (1960) original ad
   
Earl Hoyt and Ann Weber Hoyt in Vegas 1978 Hoyt Archery (1962)
Indian Archery (1968)
Stalker and Cheyenne
Indian Archery (1968)
Seneca, Warrior and Cochise
   
  Killian Recurve
Limb repair instructions (Yamaha 1987) Early Howatt bows made in approximately 1938.
 Arrows are rare spiral footed design
Fred Bear, Katie Smith and Terry Martin
at the Anderson Bowhunter Clinic
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OK Sportbogen (1980)
made in Germany
Ben Pearson Archery (1959) Ben Pearson Archery (1969)
BP-H52, Pinto and Javelina
Ben Pearson Take Down Bows
Marauder TD (1973)
Competitor TD (1970)
Ben Pearson Archery (1973)
"Centurion" 64" (shown with Martin Posi-Flip arrow rest)
Wing Archery (1967)
"Presentation 1"
Wing Archery (1967)
"Presentation 2"


Custom Mini-Recurve
(made at Howatt Arhery) (1980's)
Norm Richards Archery
Los Angeles, California
"Fascination" & "Fantasitique"
(1965)
Robin Hood Archery (1976) Sanders "Sportsman"
1960's
Sabo SSR recurve bow (1969-70) shows earliest versions of "V" launch arrow rest. The Sabo rest was made in several versions. Some finger shooters drilled the side sight window plate and installed Hoyt adjustable side rest.
(Photo is from a 1970 Sabo ad)
Sabo Archery "SSR" (1969) original ad
Featured shoot thru design with one of the first "V" launch rests made of copper, steel  and plastic.
Shakespeare Archery (1972) Sweeney prototype recurve 1972
Sky Archery (take-down) (1993) 
Earl Hoyt
Staghorn Archery (1960)
Stemmler Archery (1072)
Turk, Tartar, Arabian and Hawk bows
Bill Stewart Archery (1993) 
Stotler Archery
(1993)
 
Dickie Roberts TD2 
Recurve Takedown Bow (1976)
Takedown Bows  (1972)
Takedown Bows (1972) Jim Easton on the cover of Archery Magazine (1977)
Sherri Schrull shown shooting a Shakespeare Golden Eagle Bow
For information and subcribtion to Archery Magazine
www.nfaa-archery.org
Wing Archery "Slim Line" (1971) Wing Archery (1972)
1-Presentation II 
2-White Wing
3-Swift Wing
Wing Archery (1962)
"Accra-lizer" with Accra-rest
Wing Archery (1969) 1-Presentation II, 2-Presentation I, 3-White Wing, 4-Swift Wing, 5-Silver Wing, 6-Thunderbird, 7-Chaparral, 8-Red Wing Hunter, 9-Gull, 10-Falcon, 11- Nighthawk
Yamaha Archery (1987) Yamaha Archery (1987)
EX Two-Toned Handle and Ceramics Carbon limbs
York Archery (1964)
"Constellation"
Black Widow (silver anniversary)
Model M-A  Takedown (1983)
Made with solid brass limb and handle
inserts and bushings, clear glass.
Bear Kodiak (1962)  60" Bear Kodiak Magnum (1962)  52"
Bear Grizzly (1962)  60" Bear Kodiak Special (1962)
63", 66" & 69"
Bear Polar (1962)  66" Bear Cub  (1962)  60"
Bear  (1984)
Custom Kodiak, Kodiak &
Fred Bear Take-Down Longbow
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
 

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